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TO ALL WHO'M IT MAY CONCERN Be itknown that I, LOUIS STRAUS, of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson, and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and improved Mode of Replacing Cars' and Locomotives upon the Track; and I do hereby .declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front elevation, showing my invention applied to one end of the platform of a car, which is supposed to be partly o the t1-ack. i i

Figure 2 is a front view of the same parts, partly in section, representing the car upon the track.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section, taken in the vertical plane indicated by red line a: a: in fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a top view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to a new and improved contrivance whichl is applicable to street and steam-cars and locomotives; and which is-designcd for replacing them upon their track should they run o' from accident or other cause. l l

The nature of my invention consists in a. segmentsha`ped stool, in icombination with a laterally movable rack, applied to one end of a car or a locomotive, and so constructed that one person can, with very little expenditure `of Vtime and labor, raise oneV end offsaid car cpr-locomotive and move it upon its track, as will be hereinafter described. 4

ATo enable Aothers skilled in the art to understand my inventionrI willdescribe its construction and'operation'.

In the accompanying drawings A represents'the body of a street can, and -B v is the .dash-board applied to one end of it. C represents a horizontalbar, vbent in the-form cfa segment,and mounted upon legs a a, which latter` are prevented fromspreading by means of'the brace This const itutes a stool, -upon which one end of the'carisfsupportcd and moved, as'will lie hereinafter explained. Iii constructing the curved bar C of the stool, some reference must be had to the length of the carto wlichit is .to be applied, so that said bar C will be curved'coucentric, or nearly sro, to the centre off-motion of the earfif thelatter be moved around upon one pair only of its wheels.' The distancebetween the .legs lofl saidvv stool yshould beabout equal to the gauge of the said track, so that said legs will resteithe'r between or on top ofthe-rails, or on the outside thereof: l't is desirable to have a rmbasefsupport for the stool, and `for thisreason the legs of this stool may rest upon the Vsleepers or rails of the track." In the upper side of the curvedibar andextending in a direction with the length thereof, is an inverted T slotfor receiving the lower forked end 'of a vertical rack lD, the teeth of which engage with a pinion, c, which has its bearings in a guide-box, E, secured to the dash-bard B, as shown Qn the sides of the lower or Vforked ends of the rack D, anti-friction rollers ee are'a-pplied in the Tfshaped` slot,'the object of which isA to allow the'rack to be moved back and forth from one endto the other of the said Islot wit-h as little friction as possible.' The upper portion of said rack passes through the guidebox E, so that by turning the hand-wheel F, which is keyed on the inner end of the shaft of pinion c, this end of the car can be raised free from the ground, as shown in fig. 1. By turning said hand-wheel in an opposite direction the car will be brought down againV upon the ground, or upon itsrrails, and thestool elevated free from the latter, as shown in figs, 2 and 3. In practice a pawl, or a pawl and ratchet, will be employed for keeping the rack in thede'sired positions after adjustment. It will be seen that when the car is raised at one end it will be supported upon the stool-barrC by means of rollers or wheels, so that very little power will be required to movesaid end laterally and horizontally o ver the rail track, so that vwhen it is lowered again the car will be placed properly uponV the track. In order to facilitate the lateral movement of the'car to place it upon its track, two pulleys, g g, are applied to tlie rack I), near its supporting-bar C, under whichchains pass, which are suitably secured to this bar C, near its extremities, and which are carried up: and passed around a drum, i,

to the shaft of which a hand-wheel, G, is keyed, as shown in figs. 1, 3, and 4. By this arrangement a person standing upon the platform of the car, near the twowheels F and G, can raise one end of this car so that its l wheels will bc above the plane of the rail track; afterkwhich suchperson can move the car around and bring itsA wheels directly over the rails, so that when'zthecar'is lowered again its wheels will all be in proper place upon the rails. The hand-wheel Gr, and ropes or chains for'moving the car laterally, may in some instances be ldispensed. with, and the car moved in a lateral direction by manual'power,'app1ied in any other convenient manner. v

Ido not confine my invention to the precise construction of the devices herein described, as other-plans,

equivalents of these devices, may be adopted without departing l`"om the principle of the invention.

For ears which have no dash-beards or platform-guards, the lifting-device may be secured by clamps or otherwise to the platforms or ends of the cars.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters' Patent, is-

l. The combination of a lifting-device, with a stool-support attached, so applied to thc end of a car or locomotive as to admit el' the replacement of the same upon the track, substantially as described.

2. The slotted stool-bar C and travelling rack D, in combination with a pinion spur-Wheel c and hand-wheel F, substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.

3. The manner described and shown of attaching tlie rack D to the stool-bar C, for the purpose specified.

4. In combination withA a device for lifting one end of a car, I claim a device by which such end, while' elevated, can be movedv laterally, substantially as described.

LOUIS STRAUS.

Witnesses:

R. B. SHERIDAN, W. O. OUNMNGHAM. 

